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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-12-14

chance to draw strength from the stock
which would otherwise be absorbed by
those which have already good start.
About six tons of cane go to the planting
of an acre. One acre Of seed cane will
plant three acres, and as the planting
must be done every third year, one-ninth
of the crop average of q plantation must
but be given up to seed cane. When the
seed cane is cut in the fall the stalks are
laid between the rows of stubble and
covered with IL plow run on each side
After the canes are laid and cut, they
are covered with plows or with ma
chine called rotary hoe, and the ground
is then rolled to press the dirt close to the
sprouting eyes, The first crop is called
plant cane Next year the cane sprouts
from the stubble. and is called first
ratoons. The second year it sprouts
again. and is called second ratoons. The
third year the stubble is plowed up NOD
the ground sowed with field peas, VIII z
recuperates the land, as clover &@s
northern farms. The fourth year It
again put III plant cane. A good yteA1
to the acre is % tons of plant c,Nne. 30
of the first ratCons. and Is of second
ratoons. On the upper coast, above
New Orleans, it is customary to let the
stubble ration but once. In Cuba it often
ratoons six successive years. but the cane
becomes constantly more woody and
poorer in saCCharine matter.
In the stubble fields the first spring,
work consists in barring off, or NOV
ing the dirt away from the roots of the
cane with plows and hoes, to permit the
light and air to hasten the terminating of
the ratoons. By the middle of April
there should be a good stand of the
young sprouts. Then the dirt is worked
back toward the rows, and there is con-
slant cultivation with the pillow till after
the 1st Of July, when the crop is Laid
BY" No more work is done on it till the
cutting begins in September. Now the
cane i so high that a man driving mule
is lost to sight between the rows. Soon
it viii be tall enough to swallow up a
man on horseback. The rows are usual
ly seven feet apart and always run paral-
lei with the ditches-that is, from the
river or bayou toward the swamp. July
and August was formerly the time for
cutting wood in the sWamps to run the
SUGAR mill during the grinding season,
but now most plantations burn coal. The
crop being made. the planter feels
that he can relax lis vigilance, and if he
has The means, he goes off to the north
with his family to escape the two hottest
months of the year in Louisiana and
b;li!I up his health in less enervating
climate. e. V. Snlalley in The Century.
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MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the payment
of the sum of Four Hundred and Sixty two
and 51-100 Dollars (S4625D, which is claimed
| to be due at the date of this notice upon a
certain mortgage, duly executed and deliv-
| cred by Claes II. Josephson and Albertine
Josephson. his wife, to The New England
| Mortgage Security Company. of the County
of Windham and State Of Connecticut, bear
| ing date the 18th day of July. A. d. 1881. and.
! with power of sale therein contained, duly
| recorded In the office of the Register OF Deeds
| in and for the County of Stevens and State of
Minnesota, on the 18th day of August, A: D..
1881, at O'Clock, A: NJ, in Book E " of
action or proceeding having been instituted
at law or otherwise, to recover the debt Sc
cured by said mortgage, or any. part thereof;
Now therefore, notice is hereby given. that
| by virtue of the power of sale contained in
| said mort gage, and pursuant to the statute
i'll such case made and provided, the said
mortgage will be foreclOsed by a sale Ofthe
| premises described in and conveyed by said
mortgage. viz: The East half (e4l of the
four (2N, Township. One Hundred and
Twenty C123), of Range Forty-two (42l
west, Fifth p. NJ, containing Eighty go
In stevens Ste equity and State Of Minnesota,
| with the Entertainments and appurtenaneeS;
which sale will be made by the Sheriff of
Court House, in the Village of Morris. in
said County and State, on the oath day Of
December, A. d. 1887 at O'Clock P. NJ. of
bidder for cash. to pay said debt and interest,
and the taxes. if any. on said premises. and
twenty-five dollars attorneys fees as stipu-
lated In end by said mort gage in case of fore
closure. and the disbursements allowed by
law; subject to redemption at any time
within one year from the day of sale, as pro-
Vded by law.
Dated November list, A d. 1887
TIE NEW ENGLAND MORTGAGE SECURITY
COMPANY, OF THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM
AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
Mortgage.
POLAND & MCCUNE,
Attorneys of Mortgagee.
Benson, MINI.
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In Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIs, Dec T.
Wheat-No. / hard cash, 733zc; January,
sic; February. 80. May. S2l4c: On track
75c; NoI.northern cash. 7la4c; January. T23zc;
May. 7g1xc: on track, 7a55721ac; No. northern
Sc: January. 69c: May. 7511ac: on track, roc.
Flour--Quoted as follows: Patent sacks to
local dealers, 4.25f4 s.; patents to ship, sacks,
car lots, 4.15G4.3O: in barrels. 43504 Is; de-
iivered at New England points, 5.2o05a;
New York points, 5l0015.2o; delivered at
Philadelphia and Baltimore, 5.0OI5.15; bakers,
3.%93.76: supertine, 2.o002 70; red dog. sacks,
1.s50l 60; red dog, barrels, i.7061.s5; rye
-four, pure, cwt.. LIS; buckwhcat flour, Dbl.
$50
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-12-14
St. Paul Newspapers Have Circulation

st. Paul Newspapers Have Circulation
ST. PAUL, Dec. 12.-Postmaster Day is
in possession Of figures from the Wash
ington authorities that shows St. Paul
to rate tenth in the cities of the
United States in the number of pounds
of newspapers that are transmitted
through the mails. New York of course
ranks first, followed by Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia, ST. Louis, Cincinnati, San
Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee and then
ST Panl
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Will Celebrate Its Completion

MINNEAPoL1s, Dec. -. The completion
of the Sault Ste. Marie international rail-
way bridge will be celebrated early next
month, and several thousands of dollars
have been subscribed to defray the ex-
pense. The officials Of the Canadian Pa
cific, Grand Trunk, Duluth, South Shore
& Atlantic, the 500 and other roads will
be invited to attend the opening exercises.
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MARKET REPORTS.
In ST. PAnl.

ST. PAUL, Dec. IA.
wheAt-Eo. hard. 7ic bid; No. northern.
cash, re bid, No Q nOrthern, roc bid.
Corn-No. 2 cash, 4ec bid; December &7e
asked.
Oats-No 2 mixed. 2515c bid. 251kc asked
January, 261sc bid.
Barley-No, g Sc bid; December, 5sc asked
No. 8, cash, 4a152c.
Rye-No. 2, 4sc; December and January, sc
bid.
9utter-Fancy creamery, 28eaoc; choice
extra, 2tD26 choice dairy. 7a24c; common
dairy. 159182: packing stock, l1913c.
Eggs-Fresh, &c; icehouse stock, 17920c.
Poultry-Dressed turkeys, eG9c dressed
chickens, 617c; ducks and geese, 500.
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sT,ckNEY,s BIG SCHEME.
Plans OF His Great International Trans
portatiOn Business.

portatiOn Business.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 10.-Erastus Wyman
gives a full description of the purchase
and purposes Of the Stickney interna-
tional transportation scheme. 1t involves
a capital of $l,5OO,0Oo. About $4,000
has been already spent on Staten island,
including 1900 feet of shore at Clifton, a
large farm of 200 acres, upon which live
stock will be rested before being shipped
to England, another farm Of forty acres
and several spots for warehouses and
trackage. Dressed meats will be shipped
il refrigerator steamers constructed for
the purpose. On the other side the Duke
of Devonshire is. interested and large
docks have been built at Barrow, nifty
miles from Liverpool. These docks con-
tain RIA acres of water and 400 acres of
quay space. From this point the pro
ducts will be distributed.
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Dakota should Have six.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Dakota is to
have six delegates to the national Repub-
hcan convention next year. Four from
North Dakota and four from South Da-
kota were asked for by Mr.. Bennett, and
the national committee granted feur from
South Dakota and two from North Da,
kots. Secretary Fessenden, however, in
the call for the convention, made q mis-
take and gave Dakota only the old num-
Der. two
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Druccists' Ingenious Device.

A very ingenious device is now gencr-
ally adopted by druggists to prevent the
frequent mistakes which occur at night
in administering q dangerous medicine
for simple one. This is entirely OBJ.
waited by putting up prescriptions con-
tanning powerful remedies or poisonous
drugs in rough bottles as prickly as The
coat of a gherkin. Any one rising in the
dark is at once warned of his danger.
Many lives have already been saved by
this simple Observation-Disclosures
crat.
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VIII Keep I'm steerago Rates.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-All the steam
ship lines except the Thingyalla line
have agreed to work together to main
tain steerage rates for six months. The
rates have been raised to basis Of $50
for the North German Lloyd, the others
receiving Cifferential rate.
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Tennessee Has to borrow.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 8.-Governor
Taylor and State Comptroller Pickard
made arrangements Wednesday to Dor
row $500, 900 from Memphis banks with
which to pay the January interest on the
state debt. The interest to be paid the
banks is per cent. The shortage of
funds in the state treasury is caused by
unusually large expenditures for public
buildings this year
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-12-14

territory, with one or two exceptions, was
represented by delegate or a proxy.
The formal papers presenting the
claims of Chicago, Minneapolis and
Omaha were submitted, and the COM
mittee proceeded to vote.
The second formal ballot resulted in
choice as follows: Whole number
Of votes cast, A.; necessary to a choice,
"a, of which Chicago received %, Omaha
l, Cincinnati -, Minneapolis s. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Morrey, Of louisiana the
choice of Chicago as the place of holding
the next convention was declared unan-
imous The time for the meeting was
fixed for Tuesday, the 18th of June, 1888.
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why the Smiths are Numerous.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. 12.-On
Thursday Mrs. James Smith, of Roch-
martatga gave birth to twin boys. On
Friday Mrs. William Smith presented
her husband with a boy and girl, and
Monday Mrs. George Smith, the daughter
of the third brother, gave birth to three
donohtorc
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Site for the Pacific Soldiers Home.

Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 8.-A tele-
gram received here from Capt. William
Banding, member of the national sol
diers' commission, stated that the COM
mission had selected a tract at Santa
Monica, niFe miles, En this city, as the
site f1z/a national soldiers home on
Tho 90 nnnaf
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-12-14
Fisheries Commission Adiourned.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10-The fisheries
negotiators, after few hours session ad-
?ourned until Wednesday, Jan. 4. Sir
Charles Upper will leave Washington,
en- route for Winnipeg, where he will
meet Lady Upper, and the two will pro-
coed thence to Ottawa. Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain will leave Washington on
Monday, Dec 10, for Ottawa, where he
will visit Lord Lansdowne during the
holiday rocnSS
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Most A mitted tn RaiI

NEW YORK, Dec. 1o.-Counsel for
Most, the convicted anarchist made ap-
plication to Judge Lawrence for the ad-
hitting of his client to bail. The court
with the consent OF the prosecuting at
torney admitted Most to, bail in the sum
. ~ 95 0OCl sE 81 - 8-s.As~ -.--. ~
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LOGGING RAILWAYS,
\ System of Roads Proposed to Gridiron
the Pine Land District.

the Pine Land District.
DULUTH, Dec. 10.-It is stated here
that preparations are being made by a
number of leading logging companies
on the ST. Louis river to thoroughly
gridiron the immense tract of pine-bear-
ing territory north of Cloquet with a
system of railroads, one or more lines Of
which will be perfectly graded and laid
with heavy rails, to be used also as a
general freight and passenger road,
leading to points on the lower Vermillion
iron range
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for the jury to act upon
The court, with impressive solem-
nifty recited the usual form Of SEN
tence, saying the evidence left no doubt
of the prisoners guilt and that tho
ofSense merited the highest penalty of the
law, which the court would now impose,
ten years in the Ohio penitentiary, and
that the marshal convey him thither at
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TEN YEARS IN PRISON.

Harper, the Fidelity Bank swindlsr. Sen.
fenced on Thirty Three Counts and Must
Pay . Penalty Of Ten Years Iuearcera-
kiou. --..r. ..r,f: .1...-
CINCINNATI Dec, 1.-THE greatest
crowd yet gathered in the corridors Of
the United States courtroom assembled
Monday morning long before the time for
the assembly of the court At 10
o'clock court was opened and seven min
utes later the Jury filed in.
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Lou Murray Sentenced.

BUFFALO, Mimi, Dec. 8.-The jury In
the case of Lou Murray, charged with at
tempted outrage upon Mary Sylvester at
Minneapolis, has returned q verdict of
guilty. He was sentenced to teByears,
Imprisonment. -
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A RIVAL OF ST. PAUL.

winona win Build a $4,000 Ice Rink
and Mammoth Toboggan Slide.
WINoSA, Dec. t0.-In emulation OF
st. Paul, Winona has organized COM
pany with a capital stock Of $50, 900 to
build an ice rink and in connection q
toboggan slide 1000 feet long. The rink
will be cookies and handsomely illumi-
mated with colored electric lights. 1t
will be used as a skating rink and will be
nnened ahnnk Ian .1k--.-- -.-.-
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In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Dec. IL.

CHICAGO, Dec. IL.
s94D7szsc; May, s5950Ac.
Wheat-Opened weak. with the pit ove-run
with scalpers on the short side, and quick
decline of nc before 10 a m. to 772sc January,
7Sc February. 79c March, s414c May.
Corn-Ranged at 4s5sD4Ss4c January, 5Ss4o
54c; May 53s4954c.
Oats-30a301sc May.
Pork-$l4 72]x January, Sl5.2o@1SSo
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we're beaUCu, d Jugs
Sage asked II they
had agreed upon
their verdict and
the foreman said
they had. The
clerk took the
sealed envelope
enclosing the fatal
words: 1--WE, the
jury, find the de-
PENDANT guilty as
kchar ed in the In
idictment. F" This
meant guilty on
all the thirty
three counts left
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New Steel Arch Bridge a. sfInneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dee. 10.-The first Of
the steel for the steel arch bridge will be
in the city inside Of twenty days. Mr..
Horton, the contractor, will begin the
erection of the false work within week.
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TO PERPETUATE NATIONAL BANKS.
A Bill Being Prcpared by Senator Far
we'll, OF Illinois.

we'll. OF Illinois.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Senator Farwen,
who comes from the ranks Of Chicago
merchants to succeed Gen. Logan in the
senate has prepared bill to perpetuate
the national banking system. His propo-
sition is that the banks may substitute
for the registered government bonds
now required for deposit in
the national treasury and first
mortgage railroad, state or munic-
ipal bonds which pay interest promptly,
and are marketable above par, which
must bear not less than 4per cent. When
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'The trouble with an oyster stew"
growled lover of that composition the
other day, sis that it is too hot at the be-
ginning and oocold as the bottom of the
dish appears, Philadelphia Cali.
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Compliment from the Dereavetl.

81 think, Mr.. Smith, said friend Of
the family, ''that your poor wife looked
SO lovely as she lay there at rest at last. y
eyes, " replied the bereaved husUa. =
''Mary always did look well in white.
The Epoch.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-12-14

The annual meeting of the Minnesota
Valley Medical association is in session at
Mankato.
Thirty thousand tons of coal are burn
ing in the Grand Trunk yards at Port
Huron, Mich.
Ex-President Grevy is Ill. He receives
no visitors. His memoirs have been
written by his nephew.
Manager Seele, of the Omaha Base
Ball club, has signed nine of the pen
nant team from Oshkosh, and Miller, Of
La Crosse.
1t is now thought that the Calumet
& Hecla mine will have to be flooded.
In that event the mine will be unproduc-
tive for twelve months.
Some citizens of Jordan, Mimi, have
found what they believe vast coal field
in that place, and a comp any is being
formed to develop the find.
There are 44O, 900 tons of coal stored at
Duluth,
The Iron Range road has let the con-
tract for building two 500 foot docks at
Two Harbors.
The wool growers adopted a resolution
repeal nor reduce the tariff on wool.
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin has
written that he will rush bill through
congress to secure 81 200, 900 for public
buildings in Milwaukee.
Two manufacturing establishments,
employing about seventy five men apiece.
are negotiating with the chamber of COM
merce to remove their plants to Duluth.
Governor Church, of Dakota, has re-
ceived notice from Washington that the
pleuro pneumonia quarantine has been
removed from Illinois, Virginia, Yer
mont and Canada.
Mr.. Multy and William Worth are on
tour of the Northern Pacific in Mime
sofa serving notice that no tickets must
be sold for more than three cents per
mile. They say ticket agents take no notice
whatever of the order.
A German paper states that the healing
process is progressing favorably in the
crown princes throat
The Walruff brewery at Lawrence,
Kan, has been declared common nui-
sanee by United States Judge Brewer.
The Toledo Oil company which has
been running in opposition to the Stan
dard, has sold out to the latter for $780,
900.
The Vomiting Center"
Professor Tumas, European physiolo-
gist. has shown that vomiting is the re,
suit of irritation Of space in the medulla
oblongata about one-fifth Of an inch long
and one-twelfth wide, and believes that
the brains of runlinants, rodents and
other non-vomiting animals lack this
vomiting center. '-Arkansaw Traveller.
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In Duluth.

DULUTH, Dec. IL.
Receipts heavy: no shipments. Wheat opened
with January at 7be sold. and May at S534c,
closing at 7434c and $3.50.
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Twenty-Five Drowned.

LONDON Dec. 12.-Twenty-two per-
sons were downed in the recent
hurricane off the Orkney Islands.
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Perfect Satisfaction, I"

Is the verdict of every one using Ayers
Cherry Pectoral for Colds, Coughs,
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and all Lung
troubles. Unlike cod-liver oil, and
many other specifics, Ayers Cherry
Pectoral is agreeable to the taste and
leaves no i'll effects.
81 cannot say too much i'll praise of
Ayers Cherry Pcctoral," writes Mr..
Robert +. McKeen, of New Gretna,
NJ. 81 have used it in my family.
many years, and always with perfect
satisfaction"
ayers Cherry Pectoral is truly the
u. Most Popular Remedy
of the age, rendering full satisfaction in
every instance Thornton Edwards,
Lonely Dale, Ind.
FL. Morris, NJ. D., Brooklyn, n. Y,
saws "Your medicines have been salts
factory to me throughout my practice
especially Ayers Cherry Pectoral, which
has been used in great quantities by my
patients, one of whom says he knows it
saved his life"
Ayers Cherry PectoraI,
,.rcpared by Dr. J. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists Price 81; Elk bottles, So
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Rolline MINI ahnt Down.

JOLIET, Ill, Dec. 1s.--The Joliet roll
ing mills, 1000 men, has shut down
This is severe blow to the business here.
The Ohio crop report shows a very I'M
satisfactory state of affairs. The yield of
all the cereals is much below the average,
and it Is estimated that the wheat har
vest will fall short about $4,000, 600
h11sIfala - So . ~ -. 80 -s.saa-s
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CHICAGO GETS 1T.
Republican Committee Choose
the Lake City for the Ma
tional Convention.
Tuesday, June 10, 1888, Fixed Upon as
the Date-Plan to Perpetuate
National Banks.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The Repubn-
can national committee was called to or
der at II a. M, in room 80 Of the Ar
lington hotel, by B. F. Jones, Of Penn
sylvania, its chairman. Every state and
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4 Marinette, Wis. will soon hare d 80, GOO
| Touring nnin. A stock company has been

DuSn6lS. -. '--4 = ~ - ssHtssaesF
n Marinette, Wis. will coon hare d $50, 600
Touring mill. A stock company has been
organized. - & 81. e.
Gentleman are at Niagara FaflB fnyess
tigating the possibilities of the proposed
great tun mel to distribute power through
the state. B Is ~ 3 +
NJ. Goblet has. informed Presid dent Car
not that he would undertake to form, Il
ministry Tor France. ~:
i. A fund OF So, 600 has been raised til ed.
terrain the Commercial Travellers 1850:
citation when it meets at Davenport.
An endeayor is being made to have the
inspection Of cattle crossing the Missouri
at Omaha removed from Council Bluffs
to South Omaha.
Rev. j. J.. Huffman, Of Sheboygan,
Wis, whose house was attacked last
month by members of his church, has
brought suit against the city for $500
damages on account of the riot.
~ The free mail delivery system will
probably be put in operation at Rochester,
. Mimi, by March next.
King Humbert contributed "a, 200 and
the pope $500 to fund for the relief OF
sufferers by the recent earthquake In
Calabria.
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Total ........ ....... 6Os.sOl
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-17

The November Century has two arti'
cles on ''The Home and Haunts OF
Washington" and ''Mount Vernon AS 1t
Is" From them we quote the following:
''The interest of the whole house centers
in the room where Washington died
The Gen'ars room, the room likes de
bes' in de house, as the servitor called
it, in a tone of genuine and reverent
affection. Just where the great man lay
a-dying eighty eight years ago, the bed
now stands, and beside it the night stand
ON which are the rings left by his medi-
cine-glasses, unchanged since that day.
The secretary at which he wrote, the
hair covered trunk in which he carried
his possessions, the surveyors tripod he
had used, the cloak he threw about his
shoulders when he went over the farm,
the leathern chair in which he sat, the
covering cut away by vandal hands, are
all there. There was something, in spite OF
! these few discordant notes, that seemed
peculiar to that room. could not feel
that thousands of eyes had looked upon
it with idle curiousity, but as though it
had been kept sacred these years, and
was yet redolent of the memories which
have set it apart forever.
"Many wonders said our guide,
'why Mrs. Wash'n'ton died up in de
attic, and not in de Gen'aPs room. 1t
was de custom in de family to shut
up room for two years after death
had happened in it, an dis room was
shut up. Mrs. Wash'n'ton went up in
de attic an dere she staid for eighteen
NUNS till she died dere. She never
had no fire in de winter, an in dc sum.
mer it was very hot, but dere she staid
wifi only her cat fur comp'ny.'
The corner cut off from the lowel
part of the door he showed us was fol
the easy egress and ingress of this familiar
friend. The attic room is pretty and at
tractive-looking, but has in it now only
one piece of furniture used by Mrs
Washington, little three-cornereo
| ypachsfand n